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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-01-27
THE THREE WiLLARDS.
Brothers Who Have Grown Rich and
Famous in the Hotel Business.

Brothers Who Have Grown Rich and
Famous in the Hotel Business.
'fThe Wizards in Washington are
three Vermont brothers, Joseph, Henry
and Caleb, named in order of their
ages. The latter is proprietor of the
Ebbitt, worth one or two millions.
Henry owns much property and bonds.
With Joseph, the elder, he is joint
owner of the Willard hotel, which
they kept for years. His estate is away
up in the millions and growing. Joseph
is the richer as well rs the elder of
the three, and is said to spend much of
his time cutting coupons from bonds.
He is in no active business. He is a
widower. and one son is the only heir.
He lives the life of a recluse. If he is
not a good lover he is a good hater.
He has little to do with mankind in
general, albeit he has the appearance
of a mild-mannered, benevolent minded
gentleman of sixty-five years. He and
Caleb have not spoken for years.
Joseph does the hating and Caleb the
grinning and bearing. The latter owns
long row of property on + street,
beginning with the Ebbitt. Only one
strip of twelve feet interrupts his con-
tinuous ownership from Thirteenth to
Fourteenth street. 1t is neAt to the
Ebbitt. This strip Joseph owns. Caleb
has tried every means to buy it. Joseph
holds it solely to spite his brother. 1t
is occupied by a tenantless one-story
structure. Not a great while ago a
suave. business-like gentleman called
upon Joseph and stated that he
was looking for location to establish
candy manufactory. He was i'm
pressed with the T street location. and
wanted to know if it was in the market
Joseph Willard repliel that he would
sell if he could get s-price. Then his
visitor asked the terms. Looking up
and catching the business mans eye,
he said: ,"My price is s500,000. You
go back to c. c. Willard who sent you
here, and tell him that" 1t is said
that Joseph has SO fixed it in his will
that the property can never fall into
Caleb's hands or the haads of his heirs.
| That he is insane is not suspected. He
loves MS luOCHcE. tuu IldhcS Il udiiy
visit to her in the house of the brother
he hates. He and Henry, though not
alienated, have little intercourse. There
is nothing the matter between Henry
and Caleb. The singularity spoken of
is lodged specially with Joseph. He
dresses neatly, does not seek inter-
course with his fellows, and only few
persons have dealings with him. Gen
eral Boynton has his confidence and is
sometimes the medium of communi-
cation between him and others in
business transactions. He appears to
be as happy as any one and attends the
church OF which he is member. He
is tall and handsome and active. His
wife was one of the handsomest women
in Washington.
Henry and Caleb are enterprising
citizens and loving brothers. Both
contribute literally to benevolent OBJ
jects, especially to the churches tt
which they belong.-Cor. Pittsburgl
| Times
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-01-27
The INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

The yield of one Dakota farm is
given as $4,000 bushels of wheat, 5000
bushels of barley and $4,000 bushels of
oats.
"A Trenton IN. J.) firm has used
more than one thousand tons of copper
during the past season in the making
of telegraph wire.
Maine has during the last year put
up 10, 70l, 600 cans of corn, over $40, 600
cans of succotash, and over 144.000
cans of lima beans. Three Portland
firms have done most of this business.
In railroad building the United
States far outstrips all other nations.
Up to the close of 1884 there were
throughout the whole world about 291,-
900 miles of railway, of which nearly
one-half was in the United States
Chicago Journal.
The amount of wool going into
consumption in Europe is much larger
this year than previously, while the
demand in this country is also increas-
ing, which gives an encouraging out
look for wool growers. Cincinnati
Times.
Rochester parties are going into
the frog-raising industry on an extern
sive scale. They have purchased
large tract of land on the western
shore of Lake Cayuga, near Canoga,
N. Y, on which they will erect i'm
provements necessary for the carrying
on of such business.--Bufato Express.
There is more wool grown ON each
sheep than formerly, the average hay-
1,l Evya Vto
1860 the product was two and one-half
pounds per sheep, while in 1885 it had
risen to five pounds. This is due to
the grading up of the common fiocks
and improving them with the use of
| merino rams.-N. b. Farmer.
| "A corn harvester has been patented
in which, combined with frame and
platform. is an elevator and its driving
mechanism, with receiving box, all so
constructed as to remove the ears of
corn from the stalks and deposit them
in the receiving box as the machine is
drawn along the rows of corn. the stalks
being left in the field.-NorM Dakota
| Farmer.
In the spring of 1883 the land de-
partment of the Central Pacific railroad
decided to make faithful experiment
of wheat growing on the sagebrush
land of Nevada without irrigation. At
/ first the experiment was a partial fail
ure. but this year it has proven, it is
said. a most gratifying success, the
land yielding fifteen bushels to the
acre and the quality of the wheat being
good. ~ Y. Telegram.
The production of the Minneapolis
saw mills during the season just closed
was 1852. .636, 019 feet, or more than 50,-
1000, 600 feet less than that of 1885. This
decrease seems to have been largely
due to the fact that the season was the
shortest on record, being from month
to six weeks less than the preceding
The fact, also, that the logs in the river
have been almost completely cleaned
up would seem to indicate that the re-
result was partly owing to decrease
in the log cut as compared with pre-
ceding years. Chicago Mail.
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A Hint to Girls.

Some one has said that there are
thousands of ruined Englishmen roam
ing about the Continent because they
could never persuade themselves to
lead trumps at whist. Similarly, there
are thousands of women living only
half lives because they have never
taken the trouble to examine their
cards, find out which is their strong
suit and study how to play it with the
highest skill. If girls were only taught
to concentrate their energies upor
what they are really clever at ant
would learn to do that something a
well as it possibly could be done. ther'
are very few of them who would no
be able to earn living if necessary. :
London Truth
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LITTLE THINGS.
How We May Contribute Largely TO thu
Happiness of Our Neighbors

How We May Contribute Largely TO the
Happiness of Our Neighbors
The round of life's duties is made up
of little things. But few persons have
either the ability or the opportunity to
do any great act, by which their coun-
try and their race are especially bene-
flied and their own names rendered
illustrious. Such acts are reserved for
the few, and the occasion for them but
seldom occurs. They are exceptional
in their character, and are not con-
nected with the everyday duties of
life The things which constitute the
sum of duty and enjoyment are little
things connected with our ordinary
pursuits and daily and hourly inter-
separately they may appear to be in
significant. but regarded in the aggre-
gate, they exert the most powerful in
| tluence upon our own character and
happiness, and also upon the char
acter and happiness of others.
| A second of time is very
little thing, but seconds null
| tiplied constitute the mighty ages.
The invisible particles of vapor ascend
ing from the river. lake and sea, are
very little things, yet they form the
rain that descends in copious showers
to refresh and cheer the earth. The
rills that murmur through thousand
wales are but lhtle things, yet they con-
stitute the majestic rivers which form
the mighty ocean. And SO with the
little things of life; however trif1ing
they may appear. our happiness and
usefulness depend almost exclusively
upon them.
In our daily intercourse with each
other, in the family and in general SO
ciety, we can not estimate the effects
produced by little acts of kindness. by
words of sympathy and encourage
ment, looks of interest and approval
and by thousand little attentions ex
pressive of the kindly feeling of the
heart. 1t is these little things that i'm
perceptibly draws us to each other and
make sunshine on our pathway. ANY
one may perform these little acts OF
| kindness, and in so doing become I
real philanthropist, and contribute
largely to the happiness OF others: :
Baptist Weekly.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-01-27

the islands of the South Seas. The peo-
pie of Chill eat barnacles as we eat
whelks, and the Hottentots devour
handfuls of roasted caterpillars, which
taste like sugared cream or almond
paste, and stand to them in the place
of sugar plums and comfits. What a
blessing it would be if we could persuade
our rising population to exchange sweet
meats and lozenges for nice young
caterpillars roasted in the ashes! Think
how the farmers would gain by the ex-
change!-Household Word.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-01-27
4 REVIEW.


!. n down, my soul, in the twlilgh''
u Y ,ske Il up the past in resiam' e, . o,d v.o-
~ balsnce accounts Win .uo O1o
v y ~ I'VE No begin with the New
,o,nents we've squandered or wasted,
~ s'ssisd hours which we can m hot se TEAL hah,,
c1ss csas hook,keeper Time, In us uaJ -oooh'
y =. ~ aessrefully noted them all.
...roed us with cruel words spoken,
o ts,is Be sess ss and intents TO deceive:
Fiil Y ~ searfs that our conduct has broken
ls lhs.u ~ Ser our faithlessness grieve?
,nrned from the cry of the needy, =
w w. ,s,ed the sufferers call!
sa - hs ,salFed in the path OF the tempter,
glm y stssed when the weaker would fail!
s,,,r. keeper Time to our credit, I'd
U ~ y Tin rndness has marked by the way,
y. W s.rdeus we've striven to tighten,
| ~ 80 rriefs we've tried to allay;
t.Aor and kindness we've lifted
p y I'm outeast from darkness and sin,
y - -a,,ght to the sweet path o. virtue
= 80 altering footsteps to Will;
.,.,re eiyen of food to the hungry,
| ~ v snd and the destitute clad,
- ~ ssos,nforted mourners in sorrow,
as,s IA the hearts of the sick have made glad
r,, usthiuks the kind Father in Heaven
~'sse items will take in review,
"a as.os s.uare our accounts with the Old Year
ass assars we begin with the New.
p'i'.s Atlanta Constitution.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-01-27
WHAT WAR Is7
A Kind of Superstition Encouraged BY
Kings and Demagogues.

"A
Kings and Demagogues.
War is kind of superstition; the pa
rade of arms and badges corrupts the
imagination of men. How far more
appropriate would be the symbols of an
inconsolable grief, muffled drums and
melancholy music and arms reversed,
the livery of sorrow. When men mourn
at funerals for what do they mourn in
comparison with the calamities which
they hasten with all circumstance of
festivity to suffer and to intiictp Visit
in imagination the scene of a field of
battle or a city taken by assault. Collect
we into one group the groans and the
distortions Of the innumerable dying,
the ineonsolable grief and horror of
their sorrowing friends, the hellish ex-
ultation and unnatural drunkenness
of destruction of the conquerors, the
burning of the harvests, and the oblit-
Grafton of the traces of cultivation. To
this in civil war is to be added the sud-
den disruption of the bonds Of social
life, and ..father against son. lfthere
never had been war there could never
have been tyranny in the world.
Tyrants take advantage of the mechani-
cal organizations of the armies to es.
tablish and defend their encroach-
ments. 1t is thus that the mighty ad.
vantages of the French revolution have
been almost compensated by success
sion of tyrants; for demagogues, oil
garchies, usurpers and legitimate Kings
are merely varieties OF the same class
from Robespierre to Louis XVIII
Shelly's Philosophical VieDs of Reform
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-01-27

The San Francisco Chronicle re-
marks that it is great pity that women
ever grow up We didn't know they
did grow up. We always laid that to
the girls.-Lomeit Cvstr.er,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-01-27

The Waltham Times is only twenty
days old, but .'Pro Bono Publico''
already appears in its columns. ''An
Old Subscriber will soon be heard
from.-N. Y. Independent.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-19

The privileges and penalties of citizen
ship are illustrated in the case of Wong
Chin Foo, Chinaman incarcerated by
the Canadian law, requiring people OF
his race, not travellers or ambassadors,
to pay $50 entrance fee on going into
Canada Wong is naturaiized Ameri-
can citizen, but all the same he had to
pay $50, and the question is, will our
Government vndicate Wong.
The principle of protecting American
citizens is glorious when applied to some
races, but the Chinaman is not popular
in America. He is fiat-headed and is said
to be generally unkempt and dirty.
There are many other objections urged
against him. but the principle thing that
causes all the Wongs to get left is that
they have not got vote.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-19
NEW YORK POLITICS.

As New York politics this year bear 40
important a relation TO the presidential
comics, of 1888. il is interesting TO note
the currents Of popular opinion in that
State as the present State canvass pro-
crosses. We cited yesterday the opinion
of one of the big dailies to show what
might he the influence Of the indepen-
dent force in each party While the
Democrats have often lost, and may
again lose. an election on account OF the
recalciirant element in their party, II i
equally true OF the Republicans The
power of the liquor men in New York j.
unite certain TO drive of large vote
from the Republicans. because there Is
nothing in the declarations Of that party
10 promise them comfort and protection
from the temperance men, and it is equally
certain that there is no positive idea in
the Republican party to encourage the
Prohibitionists.
All this time there is an Independent
movement organized as the Personal
Liberty Party that gathers all the wide
spread power of the Germans to oppose
all laws against Sunday beer.
now il is impossible to explain plat
form that will be liberal enough to the
Germans who demand beer on Sunday
and at the same time he conservative on
the liquor question.
The Democratic party in New York
will certainly have the advantage OF its
traditional idea Of liberty and personal
freedom, and as it looks at present the
tide is going that way. On the other
hand, as we pointed out long ago there
is a great danger looming mp in the
organization of the Prohibitionists with
the advocates of female suffrage.
The one and only way to persuade any
very great number of women to vote Is
to ally two fanatical ideas on the common
cause of opposition TO what the women
understand as the arch enemy OF the
household. That this will be done we do
not doubt, but the elements will not crys-
talize fast enough to decide the New York
election.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-19
,ooL r,.. and SIGNIFICANT and shake hi. head

irOE WISE ana ~ -fiin'tnt hii'i shaA' us n''''i
and finally, with a funny wink told mo to
60 over across the hall 10 another office and
state my case There serious looking man
told me he was sorry, but Mr.. b. was away
from home, and then | went away, too, but
to this day | can't understand those mods and
winks and the dlfereyce OF statements pre-
vailiDg among the people about the place.
All I've got 10 say Is that II Baedeker's guide
books were as diversified in their statements
as his hired help Is, a Traveller would be in
state Of chaos twenty-five minutes after she
had left her hotel
didn't zee Baedecker, cause or no cause
and that's what a woman gets for running
after man. anyway, and / ought to have
known better.
Dickey saws I'm old enough.
But don't discuss age. The subject IS too
tender. though IL results are not.
We have visited the great cathedral OF 20
logne. II j. monument 10 the glory OF
architecture. Other churches may be greater
i'm extent thsn this, others may be more
richly appointed but none fills the eye, salts
fies the sense OF harmony and gives that per-
feet Specification Of completeness which this
one does. II possesses the perfection of mag
nifcenf grace, possible only TO Gothic struc-
lures. and j. nearer the definition Of SYM
phony in stone than any building | have
seen. the beautiful Milan cathedral not ex-
cepted
Dickcy SAYS after a burst like that ought
To stop MARY JANE.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-19
UNTIL AFTER ELECTION.

AS the Supreme Court has released our
State officers on their own recOgnizances,
and the date for the final trial of the case
Is a week after our State election, We
again suggest to the speakers and news
papers on our side not to exploit a SEN
sational idea against the Federal au-
thority pending the judicial consideration
of the question. Legal technicalities are
not good elements for popular discussion,
for the argument is obliged TO become
an appeal 20 sentiment, passions
and prejudice before an assem-
blv that is the very reverse
of that mind and Judgment which are
supposed to deal with questions of law
ful authority and fundamental right. If
the Democratic canyassers desire to make
use Of the debt question, and promise the
voters great advantages from the policy
followed by the party it is in accordance
with the present line laid down for the
party, but to introduce this issue wilb
the United States Courts, will be a step
backwards that will cost the party and
the State a long time to retrieve. 1t is
impossible that calm and sensible men
in Virginia can approve Of the risk
of taking dangerous position
when the consequences of defeat would
he so serious. Ii is true that our
State politics are all important, but where
would we be if the State were Demo
cratic and the national party straddled
with the responsibility of victory won
on such a battle-ground as is proposed if
we claim the power of the local sover-
eighty to override the Federal authority
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-19

Mr.. Gladstone was of course the CEN
trail figure in the Congress of British
Liberals, that met at Nottingham.
Home rule for Ireland was to be the
chief feature One of the other ideas Is
to limit ore man to one vote. Now If
he lives in a borough and holds property
in two counties he can vote in two OF
more places. as the case may be. The
disestablishment of the State Church.s in
the list of things the party will commit
itself to, and free education also.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-19

until 1873 He continued his law practice
i'm Lancaster until 1873, when he went
to Minneapolis, and became editor-in-chef oil
The Tribune In 1871 he resumed the prac-
tice of law, and was elected judge OF probate
and served for four years. In 1876 he was
appointed to the bench of the district Judge
Rea joined the Grand Army OF the Republic
in 1866 at Pequa, o., and became a charter
member of George II. Thomas post No. ~,
Department Of Pennsylvania, and was sue
cessively post chaplain, post commander
member of the department council OF admin
istration and one OF the Pennsylvania dele
gates to the national encampment III n'<'
I'm 1884 and 1885, he was elected senior wee
commandments and from 1888 70 1850
he served as quartermaster general Oh "in-
nesota. The judge is a Republican, takes a
keen interest in politics, and is an excellent
sneaker
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-19
pret,y Waiter Girls in japan.

All the Iapanese cooks affect French names
for their dishes, and it IS very natural thaI
they should. rs they have all been taught by
French culinary artists but the Jap COOK IS
not always up in French nomenclature, ana
Il is sometimes pulling to know what he
means For instance, | ordered one day
what was put down on the menu as "Spatch-
cock and mashed potatoes" and when 1t was
brought me | found il to be a small bit OF
chicken with potato. The walters here are
all japanese girls, and very pretty. They
possess thick, glossy hair and dazzling teeth.
Their costumes are very much a la "Mikado,
but more open in the neck. Only recently O
very proper American lady took it into hel
head that they knew no better, and, pro
viding herself with a paper Of pins, went
about the streets pinning together the dresses
of all the girls whom she could capture
This caused much astonishment and amuse'
ment in the town, and the quick w1tssc w
gave her an unpronounceable mans vac
being translated, signideth "Ihs 0Feas A'neE'
lean Pinner.n 1u....v-.
lish 20 Tie djshes a ttsmsnp ors 1.1trseo.
ana one orders By nuznb@s4 v11c> 3 -
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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-19

The Endorsement of the Reform ticket
by the Republican committee is only an
other act in the farce that is being played
before the people of Richmond. 1t re-
minds one of that chestnut story Of two
politicians in Washington who, being
dead broke, drew up note for 500.
The question was a long time debated
between the two worthless as 10 which
should sign and which should indorse,
but when finally the document was
drawn and banker found who dis
counted the note, one of the statesmen
having pocketed his share, asked of the
other, "Wha, the - the banker wanted
with the note"
Thus II is with the Reformers. Whcth-
or one signs and the other Endorses is all
the same TO the fool who cashes the note
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-19

ings worn in as a deputy himself.
The story of this reporters work is thrill
ing one, and its elimination is another tri-
umph for the reporter as detective.
Mr.. Barron, il may be stated for the hene-
fit of those not already familiar with the Gaze,
was found dead in front OF the vault of the in
stitution on Feb %, 1873. He had been bound
hand and foot and gagged by his murderers.
Only a small sum was taken from the bank,
however. 4 reward of 1000 was offered
for the arrest of the murderers by the trus-
tees of the bank. but no trace of them could
be found
Barron was about - years of age and had
held the Office of treasurer Of the town for a
number of years. He was a deacon in the
Congregationalist church and prominent
member OF the Masonic fraternity. His
life was insured in the Mutual Life Insurance
company. of New York, the Connecticut
Mutual and other companies to the amount
of $1,000 Ii was this fact and the
fact that there was slight and now ex-
planned irregularity in his accounts that
started the story of his suicide, and detec-
tive who bound and gagged himself in the
same position as Barron was found fostered
this belief
Oliver Cromwell alias Smith, As one Of
Stains confederates is variously known, has
also been arrested Stains life has been one
long succession OF unspeakable bad deeds, II
his sons story can be believed, and his alleged
accomplice gives him very hard name
though denying knowledge OF the murder
Stain himself declares an alibi but 1t i
thought doubtful if he can prove It.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-19

The ideas on the surplus are divided
into two classes-0ne set of people who
20 for stopping the collection of unneces-
sary taxes, and the other who desire to
continue the collection and find means
for spending the surplus.
OF course, the true Democratic idea is
to reduce the unnecessary taxes instead
of investing the surplus.
Mr.. Randall wants to abolish the entire
internal revenue system, which would al
the same fell swoop abolish the surplus
Mr.. Carlisle proposes to increase the free
list, make numerous raw materials duty
free, and repeal the tax on tobacco.